Talin wrote:
Michael Foord wrote:
Armin Ronacher wrote:
Hi,
I noticed lately that quite a few projects are implementing their own subclasses of `dict` that retain the order of the key/value pairs. However half of the implementations I came across are not implementing the whole dict interface which leads to weird bugs, also the performance of a Python implementation is not that great.
I'm +1 - but this proposal has been made many times before and people always argue about what features are needed or desirable. :-(
There's been a lot of controversy/confusion about ordered dicts. One of the sources of confusion is that people mean different things when they use the term "ordered dict": In some cases, the term is used to mean a dictionary that remembers the order of insertions, and in other cases it is used to mean a sorted dict, i.e. an associative data structure in which the entries are kept sorted. (And I'm not sure that those are the only two possibilities.)
I would be more in favor of the idea if we could come up with a less ambiguous naming scheme.
I think Armin's proposal addresses this nicely by the analogy to lists: the ordered dict is in key insertion order by default, but you can invoke odict.sort() to sort it instead. Given the synergy with the Py3k metaclass enhancements, I believe this would be a good thing to have. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org